Freeman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
254 F.2d 352 · 1958
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Cohen v. United States (1979), State Ex Rel. Williams v. Marsh (1982)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Smith v. United States · Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad v. Contino · Basile v. United States · Costner v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a motion under Section 2255 may be utilized to attack a sentence which is ‘in excess of the maximum authorized by law,’ this refers only to the sentence as imposed, as distinct from the sentence as it is being executed. If appellant’s sentence is being executed in a manner contrary to law ... he may seek habeas corpus in the district of his confinement. Section 2255 is not broad enough to reach matters dealing with the execution of sentence. . . ” Freeman v. United States, 103 U.S.App.D.C. 15 , 254 F.2d 352 , 353-54 (1958) (emphasis in original) (footnote omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.